Essential Mod experienced a minor incident on October 3, 2025, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Oct 03, 2025, 03:00 PM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 3 days, 1 hour and 45 minutes Affected Components: Authentication Oct 3, 15:00:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - 1.8.9 players are unable to authenticate because of Mojang certification issues. Oct 3, 17:57:38 GMT+0 - Identified - We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident. Oct 6, 16:45:22 GMT+0 - Resolved - Mojang has resolved this incident in the vanilla launcher as of a few hours ago and we're no longer seeing issues with authentication.